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  1. Tu connais une sorte de bible des #noeud qui indique comment les faire de manière claire, dans quel cas ils sont adaptés, leurs avantaves et inconvénients… Pas un truc avec 5 ou 10 noeuds, mais un truc complet éventuellement avec des catégories, des conseils…
    Repouet apprécié !
    #ficelle #corde #bout #drisse

  2. #Russian “Merchant of Death” returns to arms trade business after his release from U.S. prison. New report says Viktor #Bout agreed to sell Kalashnikov rifles to Yemeni #Houthis, #Israel’s enemies. #news #war #russia #putin #kremlin
    news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13331

  3. Viktor #Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a #US jail almost two years ago in a trade with #Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney #Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to #Yemen’s #Iran-backed #Houthi militants.

    wsj.com/world/russia/putins-me

    #Ukraine #Russia

  4. How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

    Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
    Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

    In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

    In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

    And now Karelina.
    Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

    theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

  5. 12 Jan 2023 ⬇️

    Hosts of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda ambush Russia’s ‘#Merchant of #Death’ Viktor #Bout by asking him whether he is going to fight on the frontlines. No dice! He'd rather be a politician and a #propagandist.

    #Russia #Ukraine #propaganda #RussianMediaMonitor

    youtube.com/watch?v=6H2YPFG0yr

  6. @theghostoftomjoad The ones complaining are just flat out racists. I agree with you about the trade. Bout did ten yrs. He’s long out of the loop & as you said to get back in he just displaces the creeps who filled his void. Worst case it’s a null. Best case the internecine fighting actually disrupts the flow a tiny bit. #Bout #Griner #BlackMastodon

  7. Victor #Bout did jail time he did not have "impunity".

    Even if he goes back into arms sales, he'll displace other dealers and won't necessarily increase net arms sales.

    Even if #Griner acted unwisely, she didn't deserve hard time (likely to have been in part due to her intersectional position in multiple targeted protected classes.)

    It was a masterful stroke of on Biden's part. Unlike TFG he saved an American. She is also BTW a star athlete. Bout is a nobody loser. We traded shit for gold

  8. 11 dec 2022⬇️

    Highlights from Maria #Butina's interview of Viktor #Bout, which was clumsy, odd, full of lies and unintentionally hilarious.

    #Youtube:

    youtube.com/watch?v=PHLBenKNjJ

    #RussianMediaMonitor provides translations of curated clips broadcast by Russian state media, for the purposes of analysis of state-controlled propaganda, as well as the coverage of newsworthy information provided on the shows.

  9. 9 dec 2022 ⬇️

    Convicted #Russian operative Maria #Butina appeared on Russian TV to assert that it was Russia's decision that Brittney #Griner was exchanged for Viktor #Bout (as opposed to Paul #Whelan), describing it as "an offer that can't be refused" & boasting about Russia's "position of power."

    #RussianMediaMonitor #RussiaIsATerroristState

  10. 9 dec 2022 ⬇️

    Meanwhile in #Russia: top state TV #propagandists reveal the narrative they'll be pushing to harm #Biden and enrage #Americans about the exchange of Brittney #Griner for Viktor #Bout by falsely claiming that it wasn't Russia's decision to oppose #Whelan's release, as opposed to Griner.

    #RussianMediaMonitor #RussiaIsATerroristState

  11. CW: Griner for Bout - details of the exchange

    Brittney #Griner: Russia frees US basketball star in swap with arms dealer Viktor #Bout
    bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63

  12. #Moskau, #Kreml
    #Putin‘s erstes Telefonat nach dem erfolgreichen Gefangenenaustausch von #Griner gegen den russischen Waffenhändler #Bout.

    Da #Russland jetzt ein #Terror-Staat ist, könne man auch beliefert werden, so #Peskov.

  13. ❗️WNBA-Star Brittney #Griner wurde im Gefangenenaustausch gegen den verurteilten Waffenhändler Viktor #Bout aus der Haft in #Russland entlassen.

    👉 1 Gramm Haschischöl zu besitzen ist also ungefähr so gefährlich, wie Waffenhandel an Terroristen für über 20 Jahre zu betreiben.